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Title: Peeps into China
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Reid, Gilbert, 1857-1927 Reid, Gilbert, 1857-1927. Glances at China Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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HOEVEE would understand aright the rankof China among the nations of the worldmust study its history not only separately,but in connection with universal history.To view the nation by itself is the view of the averageChinaman, and to him China can well be regarded asthe whole world under the heavens. That there isreason for such a narrow view can quickly beappreciated, when to the breadth of territory we addlength of time, and the Chinese student goes back fourthousand years to the first imperial dynasty, and fromthat early date traces forward the progress of theempire, amid successive reversals of power and changeof rulers, until to-day, in the twenty-fifth dynasty, thepure native race in eighteen provinces yields to thedominance of an outside people and a Manchuemperor. If a Chinaman should know a little of the historyof other countries, is it any the less a duty for aEuropean or an American to know a little, a very little, 82 Mi,„ 4 111!
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S3 Three Important Chinese Dynasties 85 of Chinese history ? But the study, we fancy, mustbe made easy. The most important must be learnedfirst. The three last dynasties of Chinese historyare called the Yuen, Ming, and Ching, or theMongolian, native Chinese, and Manchu—six hundredyears in all. In the decline of one of the native dynasties in thefirst part of the thirteenth century, an attack wasmade on the Chinese by the Manchus or EasternTartars. Needing relief, the Chinese sought the aidof the Mongols or Western Tartars. The aid wasrendered; but not long had victory been won over theinvader when the ally appeared as the master. Itwas the time of Kublai Khan, whose power was aparallel to Alexander the Great, and whose name hasbeen honoured among all nations. In India, Persia,and Russia—nay, even to the Baltic Sea—was thesway of the Mongols extended, till the Christians ofWestern Europe fled to the churches and prayed forthe protection of Heaven. This is an epoch full ofglowing

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